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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

You still deserve privacy, even if you:

• don't use Linux
• use big social media sites
• aren't "techie"
• are just an average computer user

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
cherrybombspice@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

Reminder #TeenVogue fired all their remaining writers who are Black women and their entire political section staff. I highly advise to not platform them anymore. Leadership at #CondeNast are the reason for the firings, they gutted the magazine and the writers who were it’s voice. But screw #Vogue too for not speaking up or supporting Teen Vogue. Spread the word please. And when and where you can, support the people who were fired.

Sources below

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
NorthBayPython@social.northbaypython.org ("North Bay Python") wrote:

It's been a few weeks since #NBPy 2026, and now you can watch all the talks we recorded, and relive all of the scheduled parts of an amazing weekend.

Linky link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaeNpBNgqQWsb59zqc%5Fmng1OqG9XdFCiH

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Russssty wrote:

@arstechnica Can't fucking wait to see the next-gen coal-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

@jsonstein Ah, a human has addressed me directly. How novel. 'virtual shredder': The jargonic equivalent of the bit bucket at shops using IBM's VM/CMS operating system. VM/CMS officially supports a whole bestiary of virtual card readers, virtual printers, and other phantom devices; these are used to supply some of the same capabilities Unix gets from pipes and I/O redirection.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/V/virtual-shredder.html

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
editora ("editora con carrito") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116552279213533823

Bastante útil, porque la verdad, yo nunca sabía qué responder cuando me preguntaban cuánto me dolía del 1 al 10.

Aunque por otro lado mi problema es que en general no me duelen las cosas, así que estaba yo con un uréter roto y a punto de perder un riñón y mi sensación era "me duele un poco, ya se pasará". Que me pasé 3 semanas así y si fui al médico fue porque me tocaba revisión, sin más.

Boosted by jwz:
dabeaz ("David Beazley") wrote:

Sure, you don't have to use cocaine, but all of your students are using cocaine. They'd probably be more engaged if you were a bit more culturally sensitive and also used cocaine.

Boosted by jwz:
dryad.technology@bsky.brid.gy ("mcc") wrote:

I do not agree with the framing "AI is a tool". Tools do things, whereas "AI" as it developed in the year 2026 does not do things. AI is for *avoiding* doing things, skipping things, faking doing things. I'd prefer to call it a permission structure, or perhaps a form of pollution.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I still have plenty of friends who disagree with me and so I can thankfully still have private conversations with people all along the spectrum of AI enthusiasm, and "I think it's OK to use AI a bit, but its use should be disclosed" is a position that is fairly common and is at least *trying* to stake out an ethical line, the lesson for these people should not be that they need to hide any use to maintain their personal safety.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Okay I hate that I have to say this, but since I have a modest audience of people with (justifiably, IMHO) very negative feelings about AI, I feel like I have some responsibility to say it:

If someone uses an LLM, you can tell them that you don't like it, you can refuse to use the thing they made with it. That's fine. I understand why it might make you mad.

Don't send death threats.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Haunted by regret.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/11/you-cant-damn-me-any-harder-than-my-own-remorse-already-does/

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/all-about-artificial-intelligence-c4ob1hesz/-/a-f0tPDJEXTKKruVpPvQBc1A%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0

The fuck is this headline. SMDH

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I see that today @andrewnez has chosen violence.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Yes. I'm genuinely bored with the whole "are audiobooks reading" line of questioning. I'm a storyteller. I wrote a story. If you read it with your eyes, awesome. If you listen to it with your ears, awesome. It's the same story. Recently I listened to a book while I was driving, and read the rest of the book when I got to where I was going. It all counts.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mychal3ts/post/DYNVJDKmecd

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Clearing out the #ADHD guilt backlog with a small update-bankruptcy update post on my Patreon. Hopefully my monster writing project will be done, I'll be done dealing with some personal issues, and PyCon US itself will provide some more interesting material here in the near future

https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-2026w16-157996636

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RIP my mentions

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Like do they ever support breaking up their employers? I'm pretty sure I've seen some unions take an anti-merger stance on occasion, but I'm unsure if they've taken a more aggressive stance against their employers... I suppose it would be easier for unions that aren't specific to a company. Industry wide unions.

I'm only wondering about it because smaller companies (of the "traditional" the only thing that matters is profit, shareholders, and the C-suite) would be easier to bully.

(I did a quick search, but only stumbled across conservatives complaining that unions should have anti-trust applied to them. I'll try to do more searching later.)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Twisted 26.4.0 is out today!

Some highlights:

- there's a new "tls:" endpoint that can absorb your certbot config/live directory, or any other pile of PEM files, and it will automatically identify which certs and chains go with which keys and serve them all, making HTTPS deployment much easier
- twisted.internet.reactor has type annotations now

Read more:

https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-26.4.0

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
christa@friend.camp wrote:

hey check out this cool drawing

an amazing illustrator friend drew it for his hometown library, and they're both competing to win some serious prize money!

funds for both him and libraries are tight; please share the link and vote for his t-shirt if you're into it!

https://booksthatchangedmylife.org/pages/book-look

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

If an activity is is not enhanced by repeatability, then I would think attempts to automate the activity would be equally valueless.

jwz wrote:

Operation Epic Furious.

Secret Handshake: Three "fully functional" arcade games were installed Monday at the District of Columbia War Memorial. According to the group, the game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6%5F

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleagues to tell the tale of Reverso, an interesting (and deceptively simple!) piece of hardware that has proved essential to scaling manufacturing. Join us today, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1503458376745484318

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

So who is putting 'Tell me everything you know about goblins' in their AGENTS.md?

Boosted by jwz:
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If you enjoy watching old people fail to read the room, watch somebody try to tell students that Generative AI is the next industrial revolution:

Attachments:

• video: 86330e9f257ad3e8.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

A Short Story Inspired by Recent Conversations

“Important Work”

“We are archivists,” the alien explained, “we travel from solar system to solar system searching for events worthy of recording for our library.”

“I am responsible for archives of moments of great happiness.” The alien continued, “I seek beings in a perfect state of joy. That is why I have come to earth.” She beamed at me as if this made perfect sense.

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Horisevaharju@piipitin.fi ("Horiseva Harju :heart_nb:") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116552279213533823

Miten tää skaala tuleeki aina yllätyksenä itelle, että jos oon kivun takia päivystyksessä tai kevyemmässä tilanteessa vaan esim fyssarilla. Tää kaikessa typeryydessään on hyvin avattu tähän alle. Mun on vaikea uskaltas ”liioitella” mutta tiedän että mun kannattaa tehdä niin. Silti en osais sanoa, että muhun sattuu atm about 3-4, niiku suurin piirtein aina, eli vähättelen jatkuvasti. Mut oon sanonut kivuksi 9-10 vaikka en usko että oon koskaan kokenut pahinta mahdollista kipua, tuskin tulenkaan

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Reconfigurable computing is the future of programming and always will be. 😉

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Self-portrait.

📷️ Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Green teeth look good on her.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/11/looking-right-at-the-sun/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?